8-10 September 2015 at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Monday 7 September 2015
Extra day for Young Investigators
Tuesday 8 September 2015
Morning programme for Young Investigators
12:00 Steering group meeting (in the conference room, building 1632, room 203)
14:00 Arrival at meeting venue, registration & lunch (in the registration hall area, building 1632)
14:45 Welcome by DANDRITE director Poul Nissen (in the AIAS auditorium, building 1632)
Session 1
Session chair: Mark Denham, DANDRITE Group Leader
15:00 New DANDRITE Group Leader
Sadegh Nabavi, PhD
Forming and storing memories: Brain’s dilemma
15:30 New MIMS Group Leader
Andrea Puhar, PhD
Endogenous danger signals in infection and inflammation of the gut
16:00 New FIMM Group Leader
Simon Anders, PhD
A new biostatistics/bioinformatics group at FIMM
16:30 Break - coffee and snacks (in the registration hall area and poster tent)
Session 2
Session chair: Poul Nissen
17:00 EMBL Group Leader lecture
Jan Ellenberg, EMBL Group Leader in Heidelberg
Systems biology of human cell division using light microscopy
17:30 Special presentation
Olli Kallioniemi
FIMM 2008-2015
17:45 Special presentation
Jaakko Kaprio
FIMM 2015-onwards
18:00 Poster session - odd numbers present (in the poster tent)
18:00 Side meeting for EMBL & FIMM (in the conference room, building 1632, room 203)
19:00 Dinner (in the canteen at Dept. Mathematics)
21:00 Poster session continued - even numbers present (in the poster tent)
Wednesday 9 September 2015
8:00 Coffee (in the registration area, building 1632)
8:30 Welcome & info about the day by Anders Nykjær (in the AIAS auditorium, building 1632)
Session 3
Session chair: Anne von Philipsborn
8:35 New Group DANDRITE Leader
Keisuke Yonehara, PhD
Motion-sensitive circuits in the retina
9:05 Short Topical Presentation 1
Richard Lundmark, PhD, MIMS Group leader
Membrane sculpting proteins in control of cell surface dynamics
9:25 Short Topical Presentation 2
Ana Calejo, NCMM post doc, Kjetil Tasken’s group
Targeting the adrenergic regulation of the SERCA2 complex in the heart with small
molecules displacing AKAP18δ-PLB
9:45 Updates from EMBL by Iain Mattaj
10:05 Break - coffee and snacks (in the registration area and poster tent)
Session 4
Session chair: Hanne Poulsen
10:35 New DANDRITE Group Leader
Duda Kvitsiani, PhD
Foraging decisions in flies and rodents: from single molecules to circuit dynamics
11:05 Short Topical Presentation 3
Saranya Subramani, NCMM PhD student, Preben Morth’s group
MgtA is strongly activated by anionic lipids and submicromolar concentration of
magnesium
11:25 Short Topical Presentation 4 (NCMM Hot Topic)
Simer Bains, NCMM PhD student, Kjetil Tasken’s group
Impact of Aspirin as Secondary Prevention in 25,644 Patients with Colorectal Cancer – An
Unselected Population-Based Study
11:45 Short Topical Presentation 5
Tea Pemovska, FIMM PhD student, Krister Wennerberg’s group
Axitinib Targets Gatekeeper-mutant BCR-ABL1(T315I)-driven Leukemia in a Distinct and
Selective Fashion
12:05 Break – coffee and snacks (in the registration area and poster tent)
12:15 Bus transport to Moesgaard Museum
12:45 Welcome to Moesgaard Museum by Poul Nissen & Group picture (in museum auditorium)
13:00 Lunch (in the area next to the museum auditorium)
13:45 Scientific speed dating (in museum meeting rooms)
13:45 Administrator meeting (in museum auditorium)
Session 5 (in museum auditorium)
Session chair: Duda Kvitsiani
15:00 EMBL Group Leader lecture (in museum auditorium)
Carsten Sachse, EMBL Group Leader in Heidelberg
Structural basis and mechanism of the selective autophagy receptor p62/SQSTM1
15:30 Short Topical Presentation 6
Siv Gilfillan, PhD, NCMM head engineer, Tony Hurtado’s group
FOXA1 is a central mediator of tumor progression in HER2/3-driven breast cancer
independent of Estrogen Receptor function
15:50 Short Topical Presentation 7
Katja Närhi, FIMM post doc, Emmy Verschuren’s group
Organotypic modelling of Kras-driven murine pulmonary cancer for preclinical target
validation
16:10 Short Topical Presentation 8
Nelson O. Gekara, PhD, MIMS Group Leader
Preparing for war to prevent war: DNA damage - the intrinsic danger that keeps the
innate immune system awake?
16:30 Break - coffee and snacks (in the museum meeting rooms & museum roof)
Session 6
Session chair: Keisuke Yonehara
16:50 Short Topical Presentation 9
Priit Palta, FIMM post doc, Aarno Palotie’s group
The SISU project – using the Finnish founder population and nationwide health records
for studying rare and low-frequency variants in complex diseases
17:10 Short Topical Presentation 10
Riitta Sallinen, FIMM senior researcher, DHR Project
Digital Health Revolution (DHR) Initiative: Next Generation Health Check-up and Systems
Monitoring for Personalized Wellness
17:30 Short Topical Presentation 11
Anna Aakula, FIMM PhD student, Olli Kallioniemi’s group
Systematic functional screening in identification of microRNA targets in prostate and
breast cancer
17:50 Break - coffee and snacks (in the area next to the museum auditorium)
18:15 Introduction to keynote lecture by Anders Nykjær
Keynote lecture by Gary Lewin
Extremity as the mother of metabolic invention: the neurobiology of the naked mole-rat
19:00 Walk through the forest to the restaurant
19:30 Welcome drink at the forest restaurant Skovmøllen
20:00 Dinner in the forest restaurant Skovmøllen
23:00 Bus to hotel
Thursday 10 September 2015
8:00 Coffee (in the registration area, building 1632)
8:30 Welcome by Poul Henning Jensen (in the AIAS auditorium, building 1632)
Session 7
Session chair: Poul Henning Jensen
8:35 Short Topical Presentation 12
Josef Järhult, MD PhD, MIMS Clinical Research Fellow/Uppsala University
Influenza A virus resistance development in the environment
8:55 Short Topical Presentation 13
Tianyan Song, MD PhD, MIMS Post doc, Sun Nyunt Wai’s group
Role of sRNA in bacterial pathogenesis
9:15 Short Topical Presentation 14
Nabil Karah, MD PhD, MIMS Post doc, Bernt Eric Uhlin’s group
Novel aminoglycoside transposons and transposon-derived circular forms detected in
Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates from Sweden
9:35 Short Topical Presentation 15
Mette Richner, PhD, DANDRITE post doc, Anders Nykjær/Christian Vægter’s group
Sortilin in neuropathic pain
9:55 Break - coffee and snacks (in the registration area, building 1632)
Session 8
Session chair: Arne Möller
10:25 Short Topical Presentation 16
Verena Zuber, previous NCMM post doc, Ian Mills’ group
Functional annotation of genetic loci implicated in both cancer and cardiovascular disease risk
10:45 Short Topical Presentation 17
Marie Rogne, NCMM post doc, Judith Starrk’s group
Mitosis defects in B cell Chronic Lymphocytic Lymphoma
11:05 Short Topical Presentation 18
Hanne Poulsen, DANDRITE Team leader
Ion transport by the Na,K-ATPase
11:25 Updates from the nodes
11:25-11:40 Update from DANDRITE by Poul Nissen
11:40-11:55 Update from MIMS by Bernt Eric Uhlin
11:55-12:10 Update from NCMM by Kjetil Taskén
12:15 Closing remarks & take home messages by Poul Nissen
12:25 Lunch (in the registration area, building 1632)
13:30 The meeting ends
